Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-07-15


The PAGER Johnston is in great shape
Billy Bair recently moved him mile in
2.l294
Luke Tully is now in charge of S.
Cohen's string. Tully was for several
years assistant to Frank McCabe, trainer
for the Dryers.
1t is probable that Clingstone will have
a tilt with Harry Wilkes before the sea
son is over.
Hanover in five races has won SIG, 600.
He also pulled down the Lorillard Stakes
Monday worth about Sll 600 The Dryers
hold him high.
The betting quotations for the English
Doncaster St, Leger, to be run Septem-
her IA, are to against Merry Hampton,
- to 2 Eiridspord, l6 to Brio, 10 to l
each Kllwarlin and Salisbury and p to
Glcn,Lral.
Brudigo has been Scratched" for the
JuOiile handicap of $1,000, to he run ut
Sauduwn Park On the 2lst inst. He was
the top weight at 1877 pounds. The
Duchess of Montrose's Gay Hermit is
now at the head of the list at 12j pounds.
Tic distance is "A mile and quarter
For the autumn meeting of the Coney
Island Jocky club three stakes are open
to close Friday, and the added money is
$1,000. The club also has open the Reali
cation stakes Tor 1889, likewise for 1890
The estimated value of the Realization
is $4,000
An auction sale of trotting stock owned
10y members will be held IN connection
with the exhibition and trotting meeting
OF the New England Association of
Trotting Horse Breeders at Mystic Park
in September.
Commodore q. w. kittson sold 90 colts
ana FLIES from his Erdenhem Stock
Farm last week. The best prices were
chestnut colt Reform, sl,7o0, to Apple
by & Johnson chestnut FLY by Reform,
| 81, 800 to Castle Stable bay colt by Dali
nacardoch, 900 to Walter Gratz.
The Harry Wilkes Gossip jr. race at
Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia, was a
tame affair. Wilkes won the first
two heats in jog in 22394 and 221.
Gossip, jr., was then withdrawn and
Harry Wilkes was sent to beat st. Julien S
time (21O over that track, which he did
handily in 2l6h.
j. |. Case, owner of Jay Eye See, lately
sold the four-year- old stallion Coleman
Sprague, by that well known trOttine
sire to John p. Cole, Topeka, Kan, for
81, 600.
A reader writes "Some time ago f.
r. Brayton of Alburgh Centre sent a com
munication to this department purportine
to be true copy of a letter from G. NJ
| Delaney OF Burlington in which the lat
ter gentleman stated that he had seer
Good wins Hambletonian trot severa
times at Dover, \. H., in 2.30H and 2 81
The Mirror and Farmer of July I, ba'
the following to say i'll its Horse Gossip
about the matter Zone of the best in
formed horsemen in Stanford county say
that GOodwln'S HambletOnlan was neve
in the hands of Howard Henders on o
Dover, but was in the stable Of Charlie
Davis, and that the report that he eve
showed miles in Psi and 2.3O19 is the big
gest kind of fairy tale. DAVIS regarGe
him as about three minute horse'"
"Stargard" of North Hero writes
ago, by Tom Tierney of ST. Adams, t
a New Bedford, Mass man is in tn
hands of \. J. Stone the driver of Rex
2.2212 and that gentleman says she dad
Banker) will never make such race
horse as Rex or trot as fast Rex wa
bred at North Hero and is a son of oil
Earthquake"
Linden Tree. the Arabian stallion pre-
sented to Gen Grant by the sultan of Tur
key, will not be sold by the generals fan
lily, but is to be placed in stud if satisfac
tory arrangements can he made.
l a new pacing wonder by Allie We,
called Frank Champ, won the 2:3O pace i
, three straight heats, at st. Paul, gettin
a record of 2:1, 12 in the first heat. H
paced the last quarter of the second mile ;
IL S:lO gait.
5 Cuba, by George Wilkes, entered the 2:3
list at the Albany meeting, getting rec
ord of 2:29. Six heats were trotted in I'll
2:2l class at the meeting, Judge Davis VIII
ming the last three Mambrino Dude
took the second money and Orange Blu
t third.
& Blue Bell and George Wilkes are havin
= a great race for 2:3O honors Geore
l Wilkes moved up even with the hi. d
C PAGER last week having Cuba and Je
: Wilkes to his credit, when, 10, the al
: nouncement comes to hand that Myrtella {
has a record of 2:29 IA. They now stan
Blue Bell 3d. and George Wilkes -, coun
ing trotters alone
SiXty--eight new names appear in the Ii
Of 2:3O performers up ITO July |, viii
+ IS have moved several seconds nearer Il
{ limit of speed. Fourteen of the form,
I have received records below 2:2J and tw
of the latter have entered the 2:2O lis
while two, Harry Wilkes and kitefoo
t who We're already in it knocked secor
= and half off each of their records.